IMEMC -
"Amnesty International has launched an urgent appeal demanding the immediate release of Tamimi, whom they say has suffered aggressive interrogations, sometimes at night, while her family has also been threatened.
“Her trial before an Israeli military juvenile court is imminent, we must mobilize quickly and effectively,” the rights group said, according to Days of Palestine." - id

Edo Konrad -
+972 -
"The law would prohibit the import and sale of goods and services that originate in settlements in occupied territories, targeting Israeli settlements but also other occupations worldwide." - id

Samidoun - Ahed Tamimi’s case is not isolated. (...) According to the reports of international agencies, including UNICEF, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Amnesty International and Defense for Children International – Palestine, three out of every four children arrested experience violence during arrest or interrogation. They are frequently arrested in night raids on their home; 85 percent of arrested Palestinian children were blindfolded and 95 percent were handcuffed.
They are deprived of access to lawyers, denied the presence of their parents during interrogation and forced to sign confessions. They are also subject to “administrative detention,” imprisonment without charge or trial. They are often detained in detention centers located outside the territories occupied by Israel, making visits from their families difficult. The use of isolation cells for the interrogation of children is a practice that has been likened to torture under international law. [ak]

Ali Abunimah - EI - “[…] activists have pointed out, sports has never been an
arena separate from politics, and the sporting boycott of South Africa was a key
international tool to help bring pressure to end apartheid” [ry]

Avner Gvaryahu -
+972
"We must make our voices heard sharply and clearly, so that every
person who served in the occupied territories will know that
speaking out is not merely an option — it is a moral duty." ca

AFP -
Al-Monitor
"We, who know precisely what it`s like to be refugees, to be
homeless and bereft of a state that preserves and protects us from
violence and suffering, cannot comprehend how a Jewish government
can expel refugees and asylum seekers to a journey of suffering,
torment and death," the 36 signatories wrote in an open letter
published in English by Haaretz newspaper on Friday.The appeal came
on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day." ca

JOSEF FEDERMAN -
AP News archive
"The stunning comments by Michael Oren, a deputy minister and former
ambassador to the United States, promptly drew accusations of racism
from the family — the latest twist in a case that has turned into a
public relations headache for Israel.The case revolves around
Israel`s handling of Ahed Tamimi, who was arrested on Dec. 19 for
slapping two Israeli soldiers outside her West Bank home four days
earlier.Video of the scuffle quickly spread, giving Ahed worldwide
attention. " ca

IMEMC - Amena Khan, a model who has worked for L’Oreal since 2016,
was fired Monday due to a vicious ad campaign, targeting her wearing
a hijab and the allegedly "anti-Israeli" tweets which she published
during the 2014 Israeli bombings of Gaza. The tweets, unearthed by
the extreme right Breitbart news website, expressed support for the
British journalist who at the time reported from the Gaza Strip and
strongly criticized the killing of children by Israel. That was
enough for L’Oreal to fire her. Ironically, when first starting to
work for that company, Amena Khan had been herself the target of a
BDS campaign - due to L’Oreal having a factory in the Israeli city
of Migdal Ha`Emek. Now, those who then campaigned against her are
demanding that L’Oreal reinstate her. [ak]

Melanie Lidman - Times of Israel - One of the El Al pilots, Ido
Elad, wrote on Facebook: “I have joined many of my best friends by
declaring that I will not fly refugees to their deaths. I will not
be a partner to this barbarism.” Noting the similar dangers Jews
faced throughout history, pilot Yoel Piterbarg posted a lengthy
missive on Facebook detailing why he refuses to fly the refugees
back to Africa.“The State of Israel is populated mainly by Jews who
were in their distant and recent past refugees in countries [around]
the world,” wrote Piterbarg. “Most of them went through the
Holocaust, many were forcibly expelled from their countries, and
many emigrated voluntarily to better their situation to better
countries that agreed to accept and care for them.” [ak]

Nora Barrows-Friedman - EI - “’We have to remember that this is a military
court, and it’s a court of occupation,’ Lasky tells The Electronic Intifada Podcast.
‘The real task of this court is not to enact justice, but to perpetuate occupation.’
Israel wants to use Ahed’s case ‘as a deterrent to other Palestinians’ who see
what Ahed did ‘and resist occupation the way she has done’” [ry]

Ali Abunimah -
EI -
"“I took scenes from the military occupation of a village I visited in Palestine and juxtaposed them with racial violence in America to show how similar our struggles are and imagine a world without division.”
The Grammy-nominated Chicago artist went much further in a powerful essay in Time last week detailing Israel’s depredations and his sense of outrage after witnessing them last summer." - id

Ma`an -
"While Wafa said that the closure was enforced to prevent people from accessing the protest, some have speculated that the closure was taken as a punitive measure against the residents of Nabi Saleh, specifically the Tamimi family." - id

IMEMC - This is among the strongest municipal wins to date, encompassing both boycotts and divestment, and is the first of its kind in the South.
The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights celebrate the victory today, on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, remembering the critical role of boycotts used in the Civil Rights Movement in protest of apartheid policies in the Jim Crow South. [bz]

Yehudit Keshet -
+972 -
"Over the years, the Forum, an NGO that promotes tolerance and joint living, has scrupulously adhered to this stipulation, imposed on tenants of all property owned by the city."- id

Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post - “If the court accepts the claim that the incident in the video does not justify being held in police custody until the end of the trial, especially when speaking of a minor,” her lawyer Gaby Lasky said, it will probably order Ahed Tamimi freed on bail like her cousin. She added, “Ahed was detained because of the feeling of insult and humiliation of part of the Israeli public, and the IDF prosecution wants to return the honor that was trampled on.”
The IDF prosecution responded by saying Tamimi was indicted on 10 counts, including numerous instances of throwing rocks at soldiers and that law in the West Bank in such cases permits holding a detainee in custody until the end of a trial.
There is also a debate over Tamimi’s family. Her father, Bassem, is revered in Palestinian circles as a Palestinian-style Gandhi for leading protests against the “occupation” and for being jailed over the years. The IDF prosecution views him as a crafty leader who has mixed violent and non-violent forms of protest, in order to harm IDF soldiers while reaping global sympathy. Tamimi’s mother, Neriman, is also under indictment and has been arrested in the past. [ak]

Photo Story -
International Solidarity Movement -
"The action was organized by Dismantle the Ghetto, a collation of Human Rights organizations, popular resistance committees and Palestinian political organizations. They call for the removal of checkpoints and the illegal settlements in Hebron."- id

Richard Silverstein -
Tikun Olam -
"Gilad Erdan’s ministry for strategic affairs has become a third intelligence branch (let’s call it “the third eye”) of the Israeli state alongside the Shin Bet and Mossad, It’s brief is to fight an existential battle against the world-wide campaign to destroy Israel, aka “delegitimization.” This primarily takes the form of a war to the death against BDS, a movement that is anti-Semitic and Jew-hating to its core (or so the story goes). The ministry is filled with current and former Israeli intelligence agents; and wannabes like the poor Shai Masot, caught on video trying to topple a UK cabinet minister for being insufficiently pro-Israel." - id

Jaclynn Ashly - Al Jazeera - Ahed`s father, Bassem, told Al Jazeera that it was very likely his daughter would be sentenced and imprisoned over the charges. Her lawyer Gaby Lasky told Al Jazeera that owing to the charges, "there`s a possibility of her facing a lot of time." Palestinian teenagers typically face about six to nine months in prison for charges of stone-throwing, but according to a recent law it is punishable by up to 20 years.
[bz]

Natasha Roth - +972 Magazine - London activist groups put up posters
at bus stops around the city calling for the release of Ahed Tamimi.
The project — conceived and executed by London Palestine Action and
Protest Stencil — hit London’s streets nine days after Israeli
soldiers took Ahed, 16, from her Nabi Saleh home in the middle of
the night, and is the latest in a series of global protests against
the arrest. “Many of those involved in London Palestine Action have
been to Nabi Saleh, and have joined protests there, have marched
behind Ahed and her family” said Leila White of London Palestine
Action. [ak]

Elior Levy - Ynet - 63 teen-agers from all over Israel pen letter to PM, ministers, refusing to enlist in the IDF and perpetuate the `occupation and oppression of Palestinians.` In the coming weeks, the group intends to visit various locations and enlist other youngsters to their cause. [bz]

Jaclynn Ashly - Al Jazeera - “A spokesperson for Israel`s ministry of strategic
affairs told Al Jazeera that the list did not represent a ‘blanket ban’on all
members of the organisations, but the entry of their members would be
considered on a ‘case by case basis’" [ry]